@BobLoblaw:
Big Mom's family it's clearly a family of pirates. They weren't taken from somewhere else and brought into it.
Columbus isn't an 8 year old child. She clearly looks closer to a teenager. Either way, we don't know if she was born into pirating or if she was whisked away from a foreign land as an 8 year old.
Sugar is clearly an adult.
We have no idea how old Bao Huang is.
It just seems like in order for someone to have a theory of Tama joining, they'd literally have to come up with some pretty wild scenarios like time travel, Luffy not listening to Shanks' advice about taking a kid to see, Tama being better off at sea instead of achieving her dream of becoming a kunoichi, Tama being able to hold her own against the strongest opponents (Blackbeard Pirates, Marines, etc.), and plot no-justsu in order for there to always be animals around to tame. It's just too much.
They're still kids!
8 years old or 13 years old, doesn't matter, they're still kids, and I doubt she is 15 or 16, we know what girls in that age looks like… cough Rebecca cough Carrot cough
if you count sugar as an adult, then you could technically count Momo as one too.
Bao Huang still looks like a kid!
I have faith in Oda, he will make it turn out to be good.
Lol! "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
there is some truth in that :ninja:
@Zhenja:
A country isn't going to change just like that.
Letting her leave instead of killing her, would be a first step in the right direction.
That's a start, I wouldn't mind if it turns out this way.
@Triceron:
I think Momo being Momo speaks enough. He's being taken care of as a kid on the crew for most of the time he's on the ship. That's how little kids have been written in the story so far and Tama is no different to this.
Unless there was some sort of macguffin necessitating them on the journey, their presence as crewmembers would complicate the Strawhat's dynamic. Someone would always have to be taking care of or saving them, and we have enough of that already with new allies every arc.
except, not by Luffy.
Except for the Udon part, Tama hasnt been that much of a difference… yeah, but it'll have to change, her damsel in distress role is over since act 1, enter... Kunoichi Tama!!
I'd say letting her live a normal life in the capital - instead of a nearly abandoned village, impoverished and on the brink of starvation - and train to become a kunoichi in service to the Kozuki Shogunate is a step in the right direction, myself…
And being despised and bullied on for the rest of her life (in this case assuming she is a kurozumi) instead of going on adventures with big bro loo-fee?
people are people, they might not try to kill her anymore but she would become even more of an outcast compared to before lol.
And also… why should this heroine, with tons of more character and personality than any other side character, who sees Ace and Luffy as her best friends and most important people in her life, who has a dream on behalf of one of them, who already played a significant role and will most likely be even more significant in the alliance's victory be simply reduced to become a servant to Momo?
I checked up the tohoku dialect that Tama speaks and found this
The Tohoku Regional Accent is spoken in the northeast region of the Japanese island of Honshu, mainly in Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi and Yamagata prefectures. Not as often heard as the Kanto or Kansai dialects in anime and manga, when it does show up you can be sure the character in question is a hick from the boonies and will not likely be taken seriously. The accent also carries the stereotype of laziness or clumsiness, as Tohoku speakers are known for slurring and not opening their mouths very much. The rather negative nickname for the dialect is zuuzuu-ben, "zuuzuu" being the sound that a Kanto speaker hears when a Tohoku speaker neutralizes and drags their vowels. Because of the negative stereotypes, when speaking with Tokyo-ites, Tohoku speakers tend to hide their accents and speak in Tokyo dialect. The accent only shows up when talking to family or when stressed. However, ever since the smash-hit daily NHK drama Ama-Chan aired in 2013, appreciation has grown for Tohoku culture in Japan; so much that "jye-jye-jye", roughly the equivalent of "whoa!" in English, has become a Real LifeMemetic Mutation.When a Tohoku accent is translated, expect to hear something like a hillbilly drawl remniscent of Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel.note
So basically Tama is an hillbilly. lol.
Okey, fine if you don't see her joining, but the only other option she would have then is to renew her promise with Luffy, which would basically make her being the one to inherit Luffys straw hat.
